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I've just found Linux MCE and found it very interesting. I've been looking for something like this for a while...

I read the main topics on "User's Manual" and "Getting Started". It looks pretty straight forward and I'm somewhat anxious on installing it at home. However I have some questions I wanted to get through before spending the money on a core, and experience is usually better than manuals, your experience that is!!

My network at home is a little crowded as you can see on my diagram at the end. What I'm looking for is to simply watch TV on the PCs and access data (Video & Music) from my NAS or core so I can watch on the TV.

Questions are:

1- Would a standard 100Mb network be enough for video/audio streaming? (I'm aware the User's Manual advise 1G. Low budget)2- Can I place core and media director on separate subnet than my PCs and use static routing? I do not want to use MCE as DHCP server.3- Would a P4 with 512 RAM be enough for a core?

Thanks a lot for any input!!!

Vic.

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1- Would a standard 100Mb network be enough for video/audio streaming? (I'm aware the User's Manual advise 1G. Low budget)2- Can I place core and media director on separate subnet than my PCs and use static routing? I do not want to use MCE as DHCP server.3- Would a P4 with 512 RAM be enough for a core?

1. I would say that 100mb network would be fine. 2. I'm not sure about the routing as i'm having troubles with that at current.3. Pretty sure the P4 & 512 ram would do the job. i'm using an amd athlon 2.08Ghz and 512 of DDR333 and seems to do ok.

1- Would a standard 100Mb network be enough for video/audio streaming? (I'm aware the User's Manual advise 1G. Low budget)2- Can I place core and media director on separate subnet than my PCs and use static routing? I do not want to use MCE as DHCP server.3- Would a P4 with 512 RAM be enough for a core?

1. I would say that 100mb network would be fine. 2. I'm not sure about the routing as i'm having troubles with that at current.3. Pretty sure the P4 & 512 ram would do the job. i'm using an amd athlon 2.08Ghz and 512 of DDR333 and seems to do ok.

how fast is the cpu? & what ram are you using?

Not sure yet. I'm going to be shopping for a used one, this is why I wanted to investigate before I start spengding money...

victorbrca, on a side note, could you tell me what software you used to create that network map? It's very slick.

Sorry for the delay... Yes it was visio. I could not find anything similar for Linux... However, I do use a neat free on-line tool at work for when client's don't have any diagram software. Check it out here